Nancy Howell
Well-known Member
Some of you will probably remember my post about a month ago about the missing mouse trap. I did find it with a partially consumed mouse.
I disposed of the partially consumed mouse and reset the trap. After catching a few more, the trap disappeared again. I looked around the tack room and couldn't find it.
Decided it must be a rat to be able to carry off the whole trap and set the much larger rat trap. Whatever it was ate the bait, but didn't spring the rat trap.
Sooo, back to the mouse trap. Set another mouse trap and it disappeared and is nowhere to be found.
Bought some "new, improved" mouse traps. The bait holder is about an inch square (which I don't like). Sunday evening I set the new fangled trap and tied a piece of bailing twine around it to keep it from disappearing. Monday when I checked it, it had been sprung and dragged to the end of the twine, but all all it had in it was a pinch of grey fur.
Soooo, back to the rat trap. I took a twist tie and tied it through the bait holder, clipped off the ends to where it was about 3/8 of an inch long and put some bacon grease on it and on the bait holder. Tied the bailing twine to it and set it. Checked it this morning and the bacon grease had been eaten off, but the trap wasn't sprung.
Sooooo, back to the mouse traps. I think the bait holder on the new traps is too large and the trap springs before the mouse is really on the trap. Since its plastic, tonight I'm going to cut the bait holder down and see how that works.
Sooo, the great mouse mystery continues.
Hmmm, maybe I'll move the refrigerator I have in the tack room. Bet I'll find the missing traps.
I disposed of the partially consumed mouse and reset the trap. After catching a few more, the trap disappeared again. I looked around the tack room and couldn't find it.
Decided it must be a rat to be able to carry off the whole trap and set the much larger rat trap. Whatever it was ate the bait, but didn't spring the rat trap.
Sooo, back to the mouse trap. Set another mouse trap and it disappeared and is nowhere to be found.
Bought some "new, improved" mouse traps. The bait holder is about an inch square (which I don't like). Sunday evening I set the new fangled trap and tied a piece of bailing twine around it to keep it from disappearing. Monday when I checked it, it had been sprung and dragged to the end of the twine, but all all it had in it was a pinch of grey fur.
Soooo, back to the rat trap. I took a twist tie and tied it through the bait holder, clipped off the ends to where it was about 3/8 of an inch long and put some bacon grease on it and on the bait holder. Tied the bailing twine to it and set it. Checked it this morning and the bacon grease had been eaten off, but the trap wasn't sprung.
Sooooo, back to the mouse traps. I think the bait holder on the new traps is too large and the trap springs before the mouse is really on the trap. Since its plastic, tonight I'm going to cut the bait holder down and see how that works.
Sooo, the great mouse mystery continues.
Hmmm, maybe I'll move the refrigerator I have in the tack room. Bet I'll find the missing traps.